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Equality Impact Assessment Training

Equality Impact Assessment Training . By Claudette Webster . The Equality Agenda . The Equalities agenda in the NHS has six strands – Race, Disability, Gender, Age, Sexual Orientation and Religion or belief.

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Equality Impact Assessment Training

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  1. Equality Impact Assessment Training By Claudette Webster

  2. The Equality Agenda • The Equalities agenda in the NHS has six strands – Race, Disability, Gender, Age, Sexual Orientation and Religion or belief. • The Trust has a number of different performance measures and legislative requirements that it has to comply with in order to effectively implement the Equality and Diversity agenda.

  3. Legislation • Currently the Trust has three main pieces of legislation to which it must comply and they are: - Race Relation (Amendment) Act 2000 - Disability Discrimination Duty 2005 - Equality Act 2006 (Gender Duty) • All of these pieces of legislation have both General and Specific Duties.

  4. The General Duty • The general duty requires that every public authority shall in carrying out its functions have a due regard to the need to: - promote equality of opportunity - eliminate discrimination that is unlawful under the Acts - eliminate harassment - promote positive attitudes - encourage participation by disabled persons in public life - take steps to account of disabled person disabilities, even where that involves treating disabled persons more favourably than other persons

  5. The Specific Duty • A number of public authorities are subject to the Specific Duty, the NHS being one of these authorities. • The Specific duty requires authorities to produce and publish a Race, Disability and Gender Equality Scheme, to implement certain aspects of the scheme and to report on it. • Part of the Specific Duty is to conduct Impact Assessments on all existing and proposed functions and policies within the Trust.

  6. Why did Impact Assessment come into place? The Macpherson report said that the Police Force was institutionally racist in the way that it dealt with the Stephen Lawrence case and due to the policies, procedures, operations and culture of the organisation

  7. Impact Assessment • Impact Assessment is a systematic way of finding out whether a existing or proposed function or policy affects people from an ethnic background, whom have a disability or people from either gender (including transgender) differently or disproportionately.

  8. Impact Assessment ‘Impact assessment and consultation must now be an integral part of the policy development process within the NHS. It can’t be perceived as either an add on or extra burden on a trust or other NHS body, rather it needs to be viewed as an opportunity to promote inclusive and fair service delivery and employment practice’ Source: Creating a Disability Equality Scheme: A Practical Guide for the NHS. Department of Health.

  9. Impact Assessment There are two levels of Impact Assessment: The first is the Screening process – where managers screen there functions and policies for relevance to the equalities agenda. The second forms the bulk of the impact assessment process and looks at what the organisation can do in order for the impact to be minimised or eliminated and this is called Full Impact Assessment.

  10. Impact Assessment • The PCT has developed a process that is a two step process and involves stakeholders and their views. • The PCT process ensures that the organisation is accountable for its actions in relation to the Equalities agenda. • This process also ensures that monitoring of the effects is also carried as part of the Impact Assessment work

  11. What is meant by Impact? A negative or adverse impact An impact that could disadvantage individuals of specific groups or communities. This disadvantage may be differential, where the negative impact on one particular groups of individuals is likely to be greater than another. Example: An event that was held in a building with no induction loop facilities would have a negative or adverse impact on some attendees with a hearing impairment.

  12. A positive Impact An impact that would have a positive impact on one or more groups of people, or improve equal opportunities and or relationships. This positive impact may be differential, where the positive impact on one particular group of individuals is likely to be greater than another. Example A targeted training programme for black and minority ethnic women would have a positive impact on black and minority ethnic women, compared with its impact on white women and men. It would not, however, necessarily have an adverse impact on white women or men.

  13. What’s next….. • Ongoing consultation with stakeholders • Ongoing monitoring to ensure that adverse impacts do not arise within a function or policy • Publication of the assessments • Official assessment review

  14. Any questions claudette.webster@manchester.nhs.uk

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